Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Hangin' Out walkthrough: Find the crystal, secret area, and beat sewer level challenges. 93 boxes.
Walkthrough
- 1In the first room, defeat the flamethrower enemy and two circling sweeper enemies when the flamethrower is off.
- 2Proceed to a pool of water with an eel. Jump onto the platform, then slide and jump through the metal door into a tunnel.
- 3Break the two boxes, then watch out for fast-approaching sweeper enemies. Jump over or kill them.
- 4Pass the first barrel rolling up the tunnel, then the second.
- 5Pass the next two barrels that are side-by-side when they are both on the sides.
- 6In the next room, break all eight boxes past the hole in the floor, then drop down.
- 7Break the checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death), then climb along the blue grating until you reach an enemy moving left and right. Continue forward after it passes to get by safely.
- 8Past that, you will encounter two more enemies moving back and forth. Go by them when they are on the sides and about to turn around.
- 9Climb through the big metal door. Break the first box on your left.
- 10On your right, an enemy moves back and forth. Follow it when it comes near you and turns around to head in your direction, then get to safety.
- 11You will come to two more of these enemies; use the same technique to get by them.
- 12At the end of the blue grating, jump down onto the platforms below.
- 13Go through the metal door and break the two boxes behind it.
- 14When you reach a pit with two enemies moving up and down, jump over it when they are in the pit.
- 15Past them are three large stacks of boxes. Break the normal boxes, avoiding the TNT before it explodes.
- 16Behind these boxes is another pit with enemies moving up and down. Jump over when they are in the pit, and avoid the enemy on the other side.
- 17Jump up and break open the checkpoint.
- 18Jump onto the blue grating and move forward, breaking the box in your way.
- 19Wait for the enemy in the next area to go by you, then climb past.
- 20After the area with Wumpa Fruit, pass the enemy moving left and right once it passes in front of you in either direction, then break the box.
- 21Pass through the metal door and wait for the next enemy to go by. Move quickly to get past it.
- 22There are two more enemies. Go past the first one when it is turning around, and pass the next one once it goes by you and follow it.
- 23At the end of the blue grating, jump down onto the platforms below.
- 24Inside the tunnel, jump over the first pit and avoid the enemy on the left.
- 25Jump over the next two pits, each with enemies moving up and down, when the enemies are in the pit.
- 26After the second pit, watch out for another enemy on the right.
- 27In the room with boxes and a hole, break all boxes and fall down the hole.
- 28You will land in a pool of water with a checkpoint and the CRYSTAL. Collect both.
- 29To access the SECRET AREA, go back through the water and jump down the hole on the other side. This opens level 27 in the secret warp room.
- 30To continue the normal path, go forward through the metal door.
- 31In the secret area, kill the two spiked enemies circling a ? platform. Stand on the platform to access the BONUS STAGE.
- 32Jump over the Nitro boxes to enter the tunnel. Kill the two spiked enemies inside.
- 33Pass the barrel when it is on one of the sides of the tunnel.
- 34Exit the tunnel and break the two boxes. Jump onto the spiked enemy behind them to kill it, then hit the Green ! Box.
- 35Enter the next tunnel, pass the barrel when safe, and kill the two spiked enemies.
- 36Jump onto the platform in the pool of water with an eel, and when it moves close to the door on the other side, slide and jump to reach it. This is the end of the level.
Tips
- In the secret area, enemies on the blue grating are lower than the grating. Press O to make Crash bring his feet up and they will pass under you. Do this whenever they are about to go by.
- In the Bonus Stage, use the metal arrow boxes to bounce across platforms.
- In the Bonus Stage, walk across the TNT boxes carefully and quickly use the bounce boxes to reach the ? platform.
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